Comments on: Let’s Go To The Videotape! http://www.eduwonk.com/2013/02/lets-go-to-the-videotape-3.html Education News, Analysis, and Commentary Tue, 21 May 2013 13:36:54 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: PhillipMarlowe http://www.eduwonk.com/2013/02/lets-go-to-the-videotape-3.html/comment-page-1#comment-257148 PhillipMarlowe Mon, 04 Feb 2013 03:02:46 +0000 http://www.eduwonk.com/?p=12415#comment-257148 <b>Michelle Rhee Can't Possibly Be This Stupid, Can She?</b> Oh, my sweet, sweet lord: <i>Q: You offered thousands of dollars to teachers and principals who brought up their schools’ test scores. Did you ever consider that it would encourage some to cheat? Rhee: Teachers have integrity. And if money was the motivating factor, they wouldn’t be in education.</i> Michelle, if money isn't a motivating factor for teachers, why would you offer them money to bring up test scores?!?! http://goo.gl/aqhbB There is no way that Michelle Rhee can possibly be this dumb. It's a trick. It's some sort of Machiavellian trick to make us drop our guard or something. There's just no way she's this obtuse. She can't be... Can she? Michelle Rhee Can’t Possibly Be This Stupid, Can She?
Oh, my sweet, sweet lord:
Q: You offered thousands of dollars to teachers and principals who brought up their schools’ test scores. Did you ever consider that it would encourage some to cheat?
Rhee: Teachers have integrity. And if money was the motivating factor, they wouldn’t be in education.
Michelle, if money isn’t a motivating factor for teachers, why would you offer them money to bring up test scores?!?!

http://goo.gl/aqhbB

There is no way that Michelle Rhee can possibly be this dumb. It’s a trick. It’s some sort of Machiavellian trick to make us drop our guard or something. There’s just no way she’s this obtuse. She can’t be…

Can she?

]]> By: PhillipMarlowe http://www.eduwonk.com/2013/02/lets-go-to-the-videotape-3.html/comment-page-1#comment-257004 PhillipMarlowe Fri, 01 Feb 2013 16:04:39 +0000 http://www.eduwonk.com/?p=12415#comment-257004 Did White repeat these words of wisdom: <i>He's told teachers that their professional preparation is worthless — you don't need certification to lead a classroom. And last week, when he challenged superintendents' published statements that more teachers are being driven in to retirement by the new assessments, he said a sizable percentage of teachers who chose to retire were some of the worst ones.</i> I think the citizens of 14th Street NW are more respectable than that. Did White repeat these words of wisdom:
He’s told teachers that their professional preparation is worthless — you don’t need certification to lead a classroom. And last week, when he challenged superintendents’ published statements that more teachers are being driven in to retirement by the new assessments, he said a sizable percentage of teachers who chose to retire were some of the worst ones.
I think the citizens of 14th Street NW are more respectable than that.

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